Personal Info
Birth date
1873-06-09 (152 Years)
Day of death
1956-02-08
Gender
Female
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
New York City, New York, USA
Also known as
Vera Mackey
Miss Lewis
Vera Lewis
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Vera Lewis (June 10, 1873 – February 8, 1956) was an American film and stage actress, beginning in the silent film era. She appeared in 183 films between 1915 and 1947. She was married to actor Ralph Lewis. She was born in Manhattan, where she began acting in stage productions. Her film career started in 1915 with the film Hypocrites, which starred Myrtle Stedman and Courtenay Foote. From 1915 to 1929 she appeared in 63 silent films, including the film classic Intolerance (1916) where she played the "old maid" Miss Jenkins. Unlike many silent film stars, she made a smooth transition to "talking films", starting with her 1930 appearance in Wide Open, starring Patsy Ruth Miller and Edward Everett Horton. Though never what is referred to as a "premier star", she appeared in 58 films during the 1930s, and another 60 during the 1940s. She retired after 1947, and resided at the Motion Picture Country House in Woodland Hills, California at the time of her death on February 8, 1956.
Filmography
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
7.8
Overview:
After the death of a United States Senator, idealistic Jefferson Smith is appointed as his replacement in Washington. Soon, the naive and earnest new senator has to battle political corruption.The Killers
7.364
Overview:
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
7.085
Overview:
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.Dodge City
6.9
Overview:
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.They Died with Their Boots On
6.612
Overview:
The story follows General George Armstrong Custer's adventures from his West Point days to his death. He defies orders during the Civil War, trains the 7th Cavalry, appeases Chief Crazy Horse and later engages in bloody battle with the Sioux nation.The Roaring Twenties
7.494
Overview:
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.It Happened on Fifth Avenue
7
Overview:
A New Yorker hobo moves into a mansion and along the way he gathers friends to live in the house with him. Before he knows it, he is living with the actual home owners.It's a Joke, Son!
6.9
Overview:
Claghorn gets into some financial difficulties and is forced by a machine-political gang to enter a race for state senator against his wife (Una Merkel) who appears to have a good chance to beat the political hack backed by the machine. Claghorn is in to siphon votes and ensure his wife's opponent will win and is expected to run a campaign that will defeat himself and his wife. But, he runs to win and the machine's henchies abduct him.Naughty But Nice
6.2
Overview:
Donald Hardwick (Dick Powell) is a stuffed-shirt, classical music professor. His family and small-town music college that he works are of equal mindset. When Don visits his black-sheep aunt in New York in order to find a buyer for his Rhapsody he is exposed to her shocking swing music crowd. His life begins to make dramatic changes after drinking a "lemonade" that turns out to be a Hurricane.Maid of Salem
5.9
Overview:
When a young woman named Barbara Clarke has an affair with adventurer Roger Coverman, it causes a scandal in the Puritanical town of Salem, Massachusetts. After a meddling girl arouses their suspicions, the town's elders accuse Barbara of being a witch. She is tried, convicted of sorcery and sentenced to death. As the townspeople prepare to burn Barbara at the stake, Roger tries desperately to save the woman he loves.Dancing Pirate
5.471
Overview:
Jonathan Pride is a mild-mannered dance instructor in 1820 Boston. En route to visit relatives, Jonathan is shanghaied by a band of zany pirates and forced to work as a galley boy. When the pirate vessel arrives at the port of Las Palomas, Jonathan, clad in buccaneer's garb, makes his escape. Everyone in Las Palomas, including Governor Alcalde (Frank Morgan) and fetching senorita Serafina (Steffi Duna), assumes that Jonathan is the pirate chieftain, leading to a series of typical comic-opera complications.The Return of Doctor X
5.9
Overview:
When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds. He returns with the police to find the hotel empty and the body vanished. Garrett writes about the incident but is fired when Merrova, alive and well, goes to the paper to complain. Now his only chance to get his job back is to find the truth, which involves the grisly scheme of a madman.Three Girls About Town
5.3
Overview:
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the mortician's convention is arriving, and the sisters, with help from manager Wilburforce Puddle, try to hide it. Complicating matters, Hope's boyfriend, Tommy, is a newspaper reporter in the hotel covering some labor negotiations.Father Is A Prince
5
Overview:
Carpet-sweeper manufacturer John Bower has no patience with inefficiency, lawyers, or vacuum cleaners. He's a bit of a skinflint, too. His family thinks he works too hard. He feels inferior for not having gone to college, so now he doesn't want his children going, either. His daughter Connie is afraid to break the news of her engagement to Gary Lee, especially since not only is Gary a lawyer and a college grad, but his father owns a vacuum-cleaner company, too.They Drive by Night
6.9
Overview:
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle distributors, rivals and loan collectors, while trying to make a success of their transport company.All This, and Heaven Too
7.1
Overview:
When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King Louis-Philippe and the husband of the volatile and obsessive Duchesse de Praslin, she instantly incurs the wrath of her mistress, who is insanely jealous of anyone who comes near her estranged husband. Though she saves the duchess's little son from a near-death illness and warms herself to all the children, she is nevertheless dismissed by the vengeful duchess. Meanwhile, the attraction between the duke and Henriette continues to grow, eventually leading to tragedy.The Suspect
6.7
Overview:
Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly yearns for a pretty young stenographer. When the henpecking gets to be too much, Philip murders his wife and manages to make her death look like an accident. A ruthless blackmailer and a low-key detective both discover Philip's secret, and he has to decide which of them poses the more dangerous threat.The Iron Mask
6.65
Overview:
King Louis XIII of France is thrilled to have born to him a son - an heir to the throne. But when the queen delivers a twin, Cardinal Richelieu sees the second son as a potential for revolution, and has him sent off to Spain to be raised in secret to ensure a peaceful future for France. Alas, keeping the secret means sending Constance, lover of D'Artagnan, off to a convent. D'Artagnan hears of this and rallies the Musketeers in a bid to rescue her. Unfortunately, Richelieu out-smarts the Musketeers and banishes them forever.Spook Busters
4.8
Overview:
The Bowery Boys--Slip, Sach, Bobby, Whitey & Chuck--start their own exterminating service, and get a job which takes them to a spooky old abandoned mansion in the middle of the night. Meeting up with pal Gabe and his new French bride, the boys are tormented by mad scientists who try to convince them the place is haunted and then kidnap Sach in order to place his brain inside a gorilla.Hard to Get
6
Overview:
When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making beds. Resolving to get even, she pretends to have forgiven him, and sends him to her father to get financing for a plan Bill has. What happens next was not part of her original revenge plan.In Old Chicago
6.476
Overview:
The O'Leary brothers -- honest Jack and roguish Dion -- become powerful figures, and eventually rivals, in Chicago on the eve of its Great Fire.Here Comes Happiness
5
Overview:
Jessica leaves her upper class home to assume an anonymous working class identity. She meets a blue collar guy, Chet and falls in love with the poor but ambitious man. Chet observes a series of suspicious, clandestine meetings with her rich father and his chauffeur which makes him think she is stringing along a "Sugar Daddy" on the side. Financial trickery and sequences of misunderstandings and coincidences culminate with a wedding that turns out much differently than planned.Four Daughters
6.6
Overview:
Musician Adam Lemp and his four equally musical daughters, Emma, Ann, Kay, and Thea, live happily together. Each daughter has an upstanding young man for whom she cares. However, the arrival of a cynical, slovenly young composer named Mickey Borden turns the household upside-down, and romantic and tragic complications ensue.Mr. Skeffington
6.643
Overview:
A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.Peg o' My Heart
7
Overview:
PEG O MY HEART (Metro Studios, 1922), directed by King Vidor, under the supervision of J. Hartley Manners, introduces the legendary theatrical actress Laurette Taylor (1884-1946) to the screen reprising the role she made famous as a poor Irish farm girl who inherits a fortune but would rather have happiness instead. While a bit too old for the character supposedly in her late teens or early twenties, Laurette was tailor made for it.Lady Gangster
5.5
Overview:
An actress gets involved with a criminal gang and winds up taking the rap for a $40,000 robbery. Before being sent to prison, she steals the money from her partners and hides it, thinking to use it as a bargaining chip to be released from prison. However, her former partners have different ideas.Hell's Kitchen
6.2
Overview:
A paroled convict's efforts to improve conditions at a boys' reform school alarm the school's corrupt warden, who has been embezzling funds from the institution. He hatches a plan to derail the reformed convict's efforts and have him sent back to prison, and part of that scheme involves cracking down hard on the reform school's inmates.The Broken Gate
NYR
Overview:
In the small farming community of Spring Valley, young Aurora Lane has caused a scandal by bearing a son by townsman Lucius Henderson, who refuses to marry her or even admit that he's the father. Shunned as a "sinful" woman by most of the town, she turns over her son, Don, to be raised by Miss Julia, the town librarian, who tells the boy that she's his "aunt". Don grows up and goes to college, and when he comes back home the town gossips begin a rumor-mongering campaign. When the town policeman tries to drive Aurora out of town he is found murdered, and Don is arrested for the crime.Acting
1947It Had to Be You as Mrs. Brown (uncredited)
1947Wife to Spare as Unknown
1947It Happened on Fifth Avenue as Woman in Chauffeured Car (uncredited)
1947It's a Joke, Son! as Hortense Dimwitty
1946The Killers as Ma Hirsch (uncredited)
1946Spook Busters as Mrs. Grimm
1946The Cat Creeps as Cora Williams
1945Rhythm Round-Up as Mrs. Squimp
1945Hollywood and Vine as Fanny
1945The Suspect as Hannah Barlow (uncredited)
1944Mr. Skeffington as Justice of the Peace's Wife (uncredited)
1943Princess O'Rourke as Matilda (uncredited)
1943Someone to Remember as Aggressive Miss Green
1943The Gorilla Man as Landlady (uncredited)
1943The Hard Way as 'Aunt Vera Elliott' in 'Morning Melody' (Uncredited)
1942Busses Roar as Mrs. Dipper
1942Moontide as Mrs. Simpson (uncredited)
1942Lady Gangster as Ma Silsby
1942Bullet Scars as Indignant Woman in Car
1941Remember the Day as Teacher
1941They Died with Their Boots On as Head Nurse (uncredited)
1941Miss Polly as Elvira Pennywinkle
1941One Foot in Heaven as Mrs. Simpson (uncredited)
1941Three Girls About Town as Clubwoman
1941Nine Lives Are Not Enough as Mrs. Slocum
1941Manpower as Wife of the Justice of the Peace (uncredited)
1941Bad Men of Missouri as Mrs. Jordan
1941The Lady and the Lug as Elsa's Society Friend (uncredited)
1941Here Comes Happiness as Mrs. James
1941Cliff Edwards and His Buckaroos as Mrs. Marshall (uncredited)
1941Four Mothers as Mrs. Ridgefield
1940She Couldn't Say No as Pansy Hawkins
1940Father Is A Prince as Carrie
1940Money and the Woman as Mrs. Leslie, Depositor (uncredited)
1940They Drive by Night as Landlady (uncredited)
1940All This, and Heaven Too as Queen Amélia of France (uncredited)
1940An Angel from Texas as Mrs. Gates
1940The Courageous Dr. Christian as Mrs. Norma Stewart
1940Adventure in Diamonds as Mrs. MacPherson
1940Granny Get Your Gun as Carrie Ellis
1939Four Wives as Mrs. Ridgefield
1939Private Detective as Mrs. Widner
1939The Return of Doctor X as Miss Sweetman
1939Kid Nightingale as Woman Crashing Vase (uncredited)
1939The Roaring Twenties as Mrs. Gray
1939Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as Mrs. Edwards (uncredited)
1939Espionage Agent as American Tourist Going to Desert
1939Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase as Miss Rosemary Turnbull
1939Hell's Kitchen as Sarah Krispan
1939Naughty But Nice as Aunt Annabella Hardwick
1939Sweepstakes Winner as Mrs. McCarthy, the Landlady
1939Women in the Wind as Farmer's Wife
1939Dodge City as League Member in Polka-Dot Dress (uncredited)
1939On Trial as Mrs. Leeds-Juror #8
1939Yes, My Darling Daughter as Mrs. Dibble
1939Torchy Blane in Chinatown as Dowager (uncredited)
1939Blackwell's Island as Hospital Desk Nurse (uncredited)
1939Devil's Island as Gaudet's Housekeeper
1938Comet Over Broadway as Mrs. Appleton
1938Nancy Drew… Detective as Miss Van Deering (uncredited)
1938Torchy Gets Her Man as Woman at Schmidt's Pet Store (uncredited)
1938Hard to Get as Mrs. Petewyler (uncredited)
1938Girls on Probation as Miss Lewis
1938Broadway Musketeers as Landlady (uncredited)
1938Boy Meets Girl as Studio Cleaning Woman
1938Four Daughters as Mrs. Ridgefield
1938The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse as Juror (uncredited)
1938Racket Busters as Jordan's Neighbor (uncredited)
1938In Old Chicago as Wedding Witness (uncredited)
1937Maid of Salem as Townswoman (Uncredited)
1936Missing Girls as Ma Barton
1936Dancing Pirate as Orville's Mother (uncredited)
1936Paddy O'Day as Aunt Flora
1935Never Too Late as Mother Hartley
1935Way Down East as Mrs. Poole
1935Navy Wife as Bridge Player
1935Man on the Flying Trapeze as Mrs. Cordelia Neselrode
1935The Daring Young Man as Secretary to the Duchess
1934The Meanest Gal in Town as Woman at Mayor's Outing (uncredited)
1933Meet the Baron as Head Housekeeper (uncredited)
1933Hold Your Man as Mrs. Gargan (uncredited)
1931Night Nurse as Miss Dillon
1931Command Performance as Queen Elizabeth
1930Strictly Unconventional as Duchess of Brocklehurst
1930Wide Open as Mrs. Hathaway
1929Coquette as Miss Jenkins
1929The Iron Mask as Madame Peronne
1928The Home Towners as Mrs. Calhoun
1928Something Always Happens as Gräfin Agathe
1928Ramona as Señora Moreno
1927The Small Bachelor as Mrs. Waddington
1927What Happened To Father as Mrs. Bradberry
1927Resurrection as Aunt Marya
1927The Broken Gate as Invalid
1926Take It from Me as Mrs. Forsythe
1926The Lily as Mrs. Arnaud Sr
1926Ella Cinders as Ma Cinders
1926The Gilded Butterfly as Mrs. Ralston
1925The Only Thing as Princess Erek
1925Stella Dallas as Mrs. Tibbets
1925Eve's Secret as Duchess
1925Enticement as Mrs. Blake
1925Who Cares as Grandmother Ludlow
1924The Dark Swan as Mrs. Quinn
1924Broadway After Dark as Mrs. Smith
1924How to Educate a Wife as Mrs. Bancks
1923Long Live the King as Archduchess Annuncita
1923The Marriage Market as Aunt Agnes Piggott
1923Brass as Mrs. Jones
1922Peg o' My Heart as Mrs. Chichester
1922Nancy from Nowhere as Mrs. Kelly
1922The Glorious Fool as Miss Hart
1920She Couldn't Help It as Mother Hogan
1920Nurse Marjorie as Duchess of Donegal
1920The Blooming Angel as Floss's Aunt
1919Lombardi, Ltd. as Mollie
1919The Mother and the Law as Miss Mary Jenkins
1919The Pest as Housekeeper
1919The Long Lane's Turning as Charlotte Allen
1919As the Sun Went Down as Ike's Wife
1918A Weaver of Dreams as Aunt Hattie Taylor
1917Jack and the Beanstalk as The Giantess
1916Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages as Mary T. Jenkins (Modern Story)
1915The Kid Magicians as Georgie's Mother
1915Betty in Search of a Thrill as Mrs. Hastings
1915Sunshine Molly as Mrs. O'Brien
1915The Caprices of Kitty as Miss Smythe
1915Hypocrites as Parishioner (uncredited)